Hog-door and gate.



P. C. JAMES.

Hoe Doo'R AND GATE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. I4. 1916.

Patented Meu. 27, 1917.

1 n I I :PERRY C'. JAMES, 0F SGIOTA, ILLINOIS,

ASSIGNOIR, T0 GEORGE G. BAYNE, OF BUSHNELL, ILLINOIS.

I-IOG-DOOR AND GATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar.. 27, 1917.

Application filed March 14, 1916. Serial No. 84,194.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that 1, PERRY C. JAMES, al

citizen of the United States, residing at Sciota, in the county of McDonough Vand State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Hog-Door and Gate, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a combined door and gate which is especially adapted for use in connection with hog-houses, but which it will be evident, as the nature of the invention is more fully disclosed, will be equally as efficient when used in other capacities.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a swinging door which is provided with an adjustable gate.

Another object is to provide a novel gatesupporting latch operable either by the fingers of the operator, or by a cord, from a distance.

Other objects will presently appear; some of these will be obvious,` others specifically pointed out.

The general object of the invention may therefore be said to be to improve the construction and increase the utility and efficiency of devices of this character.

In the accompanying drawing:

VFigure 1 is a perspective of a device embodyng` my improvements, constructed 'and arranged in the best way now known to me, shown as in operative position in a building; and

Fig. 2, an enlarged sectional detail of the gate-operating latch.

Referring to each element and, where necessary, to each part thereof, by a distinguishing reference numeral, uniformly' employed, and considering the drawings in detail, 2, 2 indicate door-casings in the nature of frame-posts, to which are secured partitions 3, 4, 5. 7 and 9 denote hinge butts secured by screws 10 to the post 42 and partition 4.

11 designates a d0or-frame preferably formed of a single piece of L-shaped angleiron the branches of which are designated by 12 and 13. The joint or union of the ends is preferably effected by acetylene-torch welding. 14, 14 designate hingeeleaves connected by pintles 15 with the butts 7 and 9, the leaves serving also as braces for the frame 11. 15, 15 are corner-braces. 16 designates an intermediate hinge.

18 designates an eye the inner end of which is riveted into a countersinlc (which, as it is an old construction, is not shown) in the distant side of the web 12 of the frame 11'. 19 is a hook-receiver the lower portion of which is U-shaped and provided with an aperture 20. 21 designates a hook, having at one end an eye 22 engaged with the eye 13 and at its other end a bent end 23 adapted to engage the aperture 20.

25` indicates a gate the vertical edges of which slide between the side pieces of the frame 11. It is restrained from forward displacement by the arms or branches 12 and from rearward displacement by guide-clips 26 each of which is secured to the gate with its outer end bent to overlie the adjacent branch 12. Together' with the frame 11 the gate 25 constitutes a door which may be swung upon the hinges to permit the passage of an attendant, for cleaning out litter, etc.

Fixed to and depending from the upper cross-bar of the frame 11 is a toothed rack 27. 2S indicates a roller or pulley mounted on gudgeons which seat in bearings in a bracket 30 also fixed to said cross-bar.

31 indicates a latch-releasing pull-rod to the upper end of which is secured one end of an operating-cord 32, the flight or run of which passes over the pulley 28 and the other end of which may be run to any distant place in the building, whereby the gate maybe operated by an attendant at a distance therefrom. The rod 31 passes through an aperture in a bell-crank releasing-lever 33 fulcrumed at 34 in a latch-casing 35 secured to the gate and its lower end then formed into a head 42. 36 indicates a gate-locking latch the locking end 37 of which is out away at 38 to permit the passage of the rod 31 and the inturned lower end of which is pivoted on a pintle 39 securedin and crossing the casing 35. The free end of a bow spring 40 bears against the swinging end of the latch 36 to cause its terminal 37 to engage the teeth of the rack 27. Said spring is fixed to the casing 35 by rivets 41.

Suppose it to be desired that a sow be conned in the pen formed in part by the partitions 3 and 4, but that her pigs be permitted to pass therefrom. The operator by drawing on the cord 32 and thereby the rod 31 will trip the bell-crank 33 to cause its upper arm to bearbackward on the swinging portion of the latch 36 and thereby free continues to draw on the cord he will hold its terminal or latch-point 38 from the racktoothV with which it was engaged. If he said latch insaid disengaged position and will simultaneously elevate the gateto the position desired, whereupon release of the cord will permit the spring l0 to react and throw the latchspoint 37 into one of the notches of the rack 27.

If it be desired to lowen the gaterthe operator will exert only sufficient energy to overcome the resistance of the spring 40,

he will, by means vof whereupon the gate will falll by gravity,

A'and when it has reached the position desired,

release of the cord will permit the spring 40 'and latch 36 to operate as above described.

' Vdifferentipositions of adjustment.

I ful-lyV realize that Aconsiderable variation in the construction and organization of theelements entering into my improvements ispossiblerwithout departing from the spirit, of` my invention, and I as fully Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the the nature of the the following, to-

4 a gate arranged to reciprocate vertically in the frame, a rack associated with the frame, a latch carried on the gate and adapted for engagement with the teeth of said rack, and means for releasing the latch and simultaneously elevating the Qate.

2. In a structure of the nature described, a skeleton door-frame adapted to swing in a horizontal are, a gate slidable vertically between the side-bars of said frame, a latch carried by the gate, a rack the teeth of which are adapted for engagement by said latch, a pulley arranged at the upper end of the rack, and a rope traversing said pulley and connected with the latch to operate the same.

In witness whereof I hereto affix my signature at Galesburg, Illinois, this 9th day of March, 1916.

PERRY C. JAMES.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

